Zitat des Tages von William Shenstone:
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.